In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that there's always a catch.

As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the “other girls, ” and that every girl in the world is, too.

I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

Never fall in love with someone's potential.

Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.